Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-18

these disciples as they rushed into the
back part of the boat. | find they are
frightened almost to death. They say:
master. carcst Thou not that we per-
ish?" They had no reason TO be fright
ened, for Christ was in the boat. |
suppose if we had been there we would
have been just rs much enlightened
perhaps more.
In al ages very good people get very
much aflrightened. 1t is often SO in
our day, and men say: why, look at
the bad lectures; look at the Spiritual
istic societies; look at the errors going
over the Church of God; we are going
to founder; the Church is going to
perish; she is going down" Oh, how
many good people are atfrightened by
~iniquity in our day. and think the
Church of Jesus Christ is going to be
overthrown, and are just as much
anrightened as were disciples the of my
text. Don't worry, don't fret, us
though iniquity were going to triumph
over righteousness.
A lion goes into II cavern to sleep.
He lies down with his shaggy name
covering the paws. Meanwhile the
spiders spin a web across the
mouth of the cavern, and say: 1--WE
have captured him" Gossamer thread
after gossamer thread is spun until the
whole front of the cavern is covered
with the spiders web, and the spiders
say: The lion is done; the lion is
fast" After a while the lion has got
through sleeping; he rouses himself;
he shakes his name; he walks out into
the sunlight; he does not even know
the spiders web is spun, and with his
voice he shakes the mountain.
l OF II TRIBE OF JUDAH.
So men come spinning their sophis-
tries and skepticism about Jesus Christ.
He seems to be sleeping. They say:
I'VE have captured the Lord; he will
never come forth again upon the nation;
Christ is captured forever. His religion
will never make my conquest among
men," But after a while the lion of
the tribe of Judah will rouse himself
and come forth to shake nightly the
nations. What's "a spiders web to the
aroused lionp Give truth and error a
fair grapple, and truth will come of
victor.
But there are a great many good
people who get aflrightened in our day
about revivals. They say: ''Oh, this
is II strong religious gale; we are afraid
the church of God is going to be upset,
and there are going to be a great
many people brought into the church
that are of no use to it," and they are
aflrightened whenever they see a re.
vival taking hold of the churches.
As though n ship captain with five
thousand bushels of wheat for II cargo
should say, some day, coming upor
deck: Throw overheard all cargo
and the sailors should say: "Why
captain, what do you meanP Throw
over all cargoP" On says the cap
tain, 1--WE have n peck of chat that ha.
got into this five thousand bushels o
wheat, and the only way TO get rid o
the chaff is to throw all the wheat over
board Now, that is a great dea
wiser than the talk OF a great man,
Christians who want to throw over
board all the thousands and tens o
thousands of souls who are the sub
, jects OF
REVEALS.
/, Throw all overheard because the
/, are brought into the kingdom of Coz
I Ibu,,u,h ,.,at r.,iy.1u hnno,g, th,,
= is a peck of chat. n quart of chat,
pint OF ohaff! say, let them stay un
| til the last day; the Lord will divid
e the chat from the wheat.
Do not be afraid Of a great revival
Oh, that these gales from heayel
might sweep through all u churches
5 Oh, for such days as Richard Baxte
/ saw in England and Robert McCheyn
saw in Dundee! Oh, for such days a
Jonathan Edwards saw in Northamp
D ton! l have often heard my father rel
. of the fact that in the early part of thi
4 century a revival broke out in Somer
vile, n. j., and some people were yer,
much agitated about it.. They said
! "Oh, you are going to bring too man,
( people into the church at once;' an,
t they sent down to New Brunswick t,
get John Livingston to stop the re
: vival.
1 Well, there was no better soul in al
, the world than John Livingston. Ii,
went and looked ut the revival; the,
l wanted him to stop it. He stood il
the pulpit on the Sabbath, and LOOKED
over the solemn auditory. and he said
r'This, brethren. is in reality the worl
, of God; beware how you try to stol
| it." And he was an old man, leaning
heavily on his staff--a very old man
And he lifted that staff, and he tool
hold of the small end of the staff, anc
began to let it fall through, between
the finger and the thumb, and he said
''Oh, thou %impenitent, thou art falling
now-falling away from life.
FALLING AWAY
from peace and heaven, falling as GER
tainly as that cane is falling through
my hand-falling certainly but per
haps falling slowly And the cane
kept falling through John Livingston's
haLa. The religious emotion IN the
audience was overpowering, and men